The Open for Student Success Symposium

Join Georgia State University Library for Our
3rd Annual Open Education Week Celebration,

where professionals and students unite with the common purpose
to learn and share insights about open and affordable education. 

The Open for Student Success Symposium 

March 7, 2025

9:30 am - 4:30 pm ET

Free, Online, and Open to All

Register Here

The missions of the Open for Student Success Symposium are to:

1. gather and celebrate innovators who are implementing and studying the use of affordable and open educational resources (OER) in higher education, and
2. produce an annual collection of openly accessible recordings and ancillary materials that advance the landscape of open and affordable education. 

The Open for Student Success Symposium's scope includes everything relating to:

• Global Open Education Week: oeglobal.org/activities/global
• Open Educational Resources: unesco.org/en/open-educational-resources
• No-Cost and Low-Cost Resources: affordablelearninggeorgia.org/resources/banner-attributes

The symposium's theme this year is

Open Education: Fueling Equity in Learning

And we will have the honor of welcoming two keynote speakers:

Paola Corti, Open Education Community Manager at SPARC Europe and Project Manager for METID at Politecnico di Milano, will share how her work is breaking barriers in the Open Education Movement by harnessing an international network of librarians.

Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Associate Professor of Education, Health, and Behavior with the College of Education & Human Development at the University of North Dakota and Primary Researcher for the Open Education Research Fellowship, will also share findings of her research investigating perceptions of access codes and their impact on student success.

Presenters will be announced December 2024.